van hoesen



UNITED STATES PALTENT OFFICE.

PIERRE D. VAN HOESEN, OF' NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAD-IRON.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,095, dated January 8, 1861.

vation of the same.

Similar letters of reference in both views indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in the arrangement of a. wooden handle which can be attached to the body of a sad iron and taken off from the same'by a simple contrivance and which is provided with a protecting plate or shield in such a manner that the handle can be brought down as close to the body of the iron as the thickness of the fingers and of said shield will allow without exposing the hand of the operator to the influence of the radiating heat.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation with reference to the drawing.

The body A, of my sad iron is provided with two lugs or ears a, a, which are firmly secured to or cast with the same and which are perforated with square holes o, to receive the guide pins c, c, which serve to fasten the handle B, to the body of the iron.

The handle is made entirely of wood or some other bad conductor of heat and it is provided with a protecting plate or shield C, which is also made of wood or out of one piece with the handle and the lower surface of which is covered by a metal plate cl, for the purpose of protecting said shield against the injurious influence of the heat radiating from the body of the iron.

The guide pins c, c, are square and they are firmly inserted into the ends of the handle. One of these pins c, at the rear end of the handle is longer than the other, and the lugs a, c', are sufficiently far apart to allow of introducing the handle by first passing the pin c, into the lug a, sliding the handle' back until its rear end strikes the lug, turning the front end down and passin the pin c', into the hole inthe lug a', by sliding the handle forward until its front' end strikes the lug a. A drop catch D, at the rear end lof the handle and over the pin c, serves to secure said handle firmly between the lugs c, a. This catch is guided by a standard c, which is secured to the rearend of the handle as clearly shown in the drawing. Vhen raised said catch clears the lug a, and the handle can be moved in a longitudinal direction, so as to withdraw the pin c, from the lug a and that by turning the front end up, the pin c, at the rear end can also be withdrawn and the handle released from the lugs. When the handle is in its place, and the drop catch is down as shown in Fig. 2, of the drawing, a longitudinal motion of said handle is rendered impossible and since by the square form of the holes b, and of the pins c, c', a. turning of the same is prevented, if (the handle) is firmly secured to the body of the iron. The drop catch D, is operated by the little finger of the right hand, which carries the iron, so that the handle can be detached from one iron and attached to another without diiiiculty and without loss of time. Furthermore by the use of the protecting plate or shield C, the handle can be brought close down to the body of the iron whereby the operation of the same is greatly facilitated.

It is obvious that one handle will be sufcient for a whole set of irons, so that each iron is rendered so much lighter and at the same time in packing the irons take up less room than they do when the handles are firmly secured to them, so that the cost of forwarding them is considerably reduced.

I do not claim the invention of a loose handle which is attached to the sad iron by means of lugs; neither do I claim in itself the protecting plate or shield, but

What I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- A handle B, for a sad iron which is rovided with a shield C, and which is attac ed to the iron by means of square pins c, c, and lugs c, a', and locked by a drop catch D, in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

PIERRE D. VAN HOESEN.

Witnesses:

LEWIS A. TUCKER, M. M. LIVINGSTON. 

